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Aalto ARTS Grad Show poster with abstract shapes in black and white. Dates: 3 Sep - 6 Oct 2025.
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Coming soon: Aalto ARTS Grad Show 2025

We're thrilled to invite you to the Aalto ARTS Grad Show 2025 of the School of Arts, Design and Architecture!
Front and back cover of the book 'Arkkitehtuurimme Vuosituhannet' by Panu Savolainen and Aleks Talve.
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State Award for Public Information goes to Panu Savolainen and Aleks Talve

The State Award for Public Information goes to Panu Savolainen and Aleks Talve for their book The Millennia of Our Architecture: The History of Finnish Architecture from Start to Finish.
A modern wooden pavilion illuminated at night, with surrounding trees and buildings in the background.
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Wood Program's KIDE selected Popular Choice Winner in global Architizer A+ Awards

The wooden Kide stage, situated in the centre of Kuhmo, has been selected as Popular Choice Winner in the Pavilions category in the internationally acclaimed Architizer A+ Awards competition.
Three models walk on a runway. The front model wears a colourful jacket, black shorts, and black shoes.
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Näytös/Näyttely25 was a spectacular celebration of Aalto's extensive expertise in textiles and fashion

Näytös/Näyttely25 culminated on Thursday 22 May 2025 with the official opening of the exhibition Näyttely25, the runway show Näytös25 and the awards ceremony in Aalto’s new Marsio building on campus.
Two close-up images of women's legs wearing white and pastel-coloured outfits, with intricate designs and lace detailing.
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Aalto’s fashion and textile students part of EMMA Museum’s new exhibition Social Fabric

EMMA Museum’s exhibition Social Fabric explores the ways that fashion is part of our lives and speaks of our cultures and values. Aalto University students are participating in the exhibition with a collective installation as well as two individual works.
Five clear glass sculptures with abstract shapes and human body parts inside, displayed against a dark background.
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Aalto University participates in Finland's first Glass Biennale

The School of Arts, Design, and Architecture at Aalto University will be prominently featured in the first international Finnish Glass Biennale, taking place from June 5th to 8th, 2025, in Riihimäki, Nuutajärvi, and Iittala.

The Long Read by Aalto ARTS

Longform stories, in-depth features and profiles, data visualizations and more coming up - enjoy our webmag!

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Creativity Unfolded

Aalto University’s blog series Creativity Unfolded focuses on insights linked to creativity in a multitude of ways. Topics include design, technology, media, architecture, film, games, art theory and more. Read and join the conversation.

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Aalto student – New Student Guide replaces Into

Into.aalto.fi has been migrated to the Aalto.fi site, and the new Student Guide contains information and news for students

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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Aalto University is committed to promoting equality, diversity, inclusion and non-discrimination in all its activities. We aim to provide a non-discriminatory, gender-equal and accessible environment in which employees and students with diverse backgrounds and duties receive equal treatment and are free to participate without discrimination in university activities.

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Professor Marco Steinberg behind his desk

Professor Marco Steinberg: ’We need to change, and we need to do it now’

Professor of Practice in Strategic and Industrial Design says that the world’s most pressing issues, like climate change, won’t be addressed by tinkering at the edges of today’s solutions but rather require a more fundamental redesign.

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Henrika Yliriskun väitös taidekasvatuksen alalta tarkastettiin Aalto-yliopistossa maaliskuussa 2021.

‘Environmental art education should address the problem of human-centeredness’

‘I claim’ series presents our researchers and the results of their work. Henrika Ylirisku researches the premises of environmental art education.

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Man in sunny winter cityscape

Aarni Kapanen illustrates Dudes & Feelings podcasts

Fighting toxic masculinity with a podcast and the help of Visual Communication Design.

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Julia Lohmann's Department of Seaweed at WEF. Photo: Mikko Raskinen

Julia Lohmann: ‘We know too much and do too little’

Lohmann’s magnificent seaweed pavilion won the sustainable design category for Dezeen Awards 2020.

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Karin Krokfors, kuva: Sanna Lehto

'We must look to the past, for a lesson in designing buildings for the future'

Architect Karin Krokfors says buildings should be designed to be adaptable over time. And that history holds plenty of examples for us to study.

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Building interdisciplinary connections through a new joint position

This September will be a start of building a new connection between disciplines as Sebastian Schlecht takes on the position as the professor of practice in Sound in Virtual Reality.

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Aalto Art and Design Cases

Aalto Design Cases is a platform for activity-based creativity and practice-based research in the Aalto School of Arts, Design and Architecture.

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Nyang'oro Girls Dormitory, a project by Hollmén Reuter Sandman

Prominent art at Aalto University

Aalto University promotes visibility and impact of art and creativity both in society and at our own campus. Aalto University uses one percent of building costs to fund art.

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Dipoli artworks

Events

Shimmering Wood -samples
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Public defence in Design, MA Noora Yau

Shimmering Wood – Experimenting with Nanocellulose-Based Structural Colour (title of the thesis).
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Aalto Creatives afterwork and info session | autumn 2025 (external link)

Aalto Creatives afterwork event focuses on Aalto Creatives alumni stories and introducing the Aalto Creatives pre-incubator program.
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Open Otaniemi

Aalto University warmly welcomes personnel and their loved ones to Otaniemi on Saturday, 25 October. Come and enjoy a fun day with us on campus!
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Aalto Alumni Weekend 2025

Join the alumni event on 25.10.2025 to gain insights for shaping a sustainable future and reconnect with familiar faces!
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